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August 27, 2017
What is NLP?
NLP is a practical set of skills, techniques and attitudes for becoming more effective in life, both personally and professionally.
NLP studies how our habitual patterns of thinking (Neuro), communication (Linguistics) and behaviour (programming) shape our unique experience of life and our interactions with other people.
By becoming more aware of your own habitual patterns and learning where, when and how to make small changes, you can begin to improve your results in whatever area of your life, career or relationships that you choose.
By becoming more aware of these patterns in other people, you can also increase your ability to understand, influence and effectively engage with them.
In a rapidly changing world, where time seems ever shorter and stresses ever greater, the ability to manage both ourselves and our relationships with other people is becoming more and more crucial.
A Brief Overview of NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP, has been defined as
‘the study of the structure of subjective experience’ and ‘the study of excellence’.
NLP is essentially a model for human experience that gives us a useful perspective on how people (and also organisations) get the results they are currently getting and then allows us to either change these results, enhance them or train others to achieve them, too.
While its roots lie in Communication Theory, Psychology; Systems Thinking and Linguistics, ‘NLP’ was originally developed in the 1970s at the University of California, Santa Cruz by Dr John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Frank Pucelik and others, as they sought to investigate the mystery of how giants in the world of therapy such as Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson could achieve excellent results with their clients with a consistency that their peers considered almost magical.
The originality of their approach lay in developing a framework or ‘model’ for human subjective experience that examined habitual patterns of thinking (Neuro), communication (Linguistic) and behaviour (Programming), which enabled them to unpack and describe these seemingly magical skills and then effectively teach these skills to others.
Thanks to the work of many further innovators, NLP has been developed and refined over the past 30 years to become the study of excellence in a huge variety of fields and NLP skills and methodologies are now widely used to improve outcomes in areas as diverse as Business, Health, Education, Politics, Community Development & Sport and NLP principles are at the heart of the proposed Northern Ireland Programme for Government.
Learning NLP has now become an essential part of the toolkit for Leaders and Managers and for many Life, Executive and Leadership Coaches, Trainers and Consultants.
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